Replit, Core Automation and Investors Put AI Agents' Readiness Under Scrutiny

AI agents moved back to the center of the industry debate Thursday, as The Information's TITV lineup paired Replit CEO Amjad Masad's discussion of safety and regulation with Core Automation CEO Jerry Tworek's case for automating AI research and investor Gokul Rajaram's question of whether agents are ready for broad deployment. The conversations highlight a widening split in the market: agents are becoming more capable and commercially important, but production use is still constrained by security, governance and reliability concerns.